SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SUICIDES / Sociological Perspective of Suicides

Ahmet Maloku,Elda Maloku

doi:10.29216/ueip.784154

Abstract

This paper elaborates the sociological perspective of suicide. Suicide is one of the social phenomens, which is present in every society or culture and is considered as one of the problems and challenges of modern society (post) which belongs to the individual and the family itself as a functional unit of society. The paper analyzes the research data in the study of the sociological approach to suicide and the influence of sociological factors on suicide such as: gender; marriage and family; unemployment; age and education. The aim of this study is evaluation, analyze and the role of these sociological factors that affect suicide. The research results also show that the sociological aspect of suicide viewed from the historical context, has been seen as a single phenomenon from different perspectives of social epochs. Taking into consideration the available data, the sociological point of view has been clarified as one of the most important approaches in the analysis of suicide as a social phenomenon. From the available literature, different views have been seen on the phenomenon of suicide and the difficulties in determining it, namely the determination of the causes and consequences, and effective methods of suicide prevention. This paper contributes to the existing scientific literature, especially in the fields of Sociology, Psychology, Criminology and Victimology. Moreover, this paper is likely to contribute to the work of NGOs, but also to the work of state bodies to prevent suicide, which is and remains a universal challenge.

Highlights

Suicedere is a Latin word that was formed by the combination of two words means “sui” which means “I” and “cedere” which means “to kill”
2020, 4 (2), 319-334 suicide during different periods was punishable if the resource was by personal weaknesses, problems and crises, or justified in many different states during different periods if suicide was based on altruism, noble interests and wider social interests or various codes of honor, tradition and customs
As richer the society is, the poorer have much more risk of suicide, because economic differences are combined with greater social rejection and isolation, the social response to poverty in different cultural settings is more important than poverty itself

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Introduction

Word of suicide is made up by mixture of two Latin Suicedere is a Latin word that was formed by the combination of two words means “sui” which means “I” and “cedere” which means “to kill” (Volant, 2005, cited by Kaya 2014:4). The suicidal act is a very complex and controversial phenomenon of extreme personality reaction to self-destruction with psychopathological features. It is the absurd and unnatural phenomenon of the deliberate and violent destruction of his life. The term Suicidology for scientific research in this field was first used by the Dutch professor V.A Bogner in 1929 This term in general use came into use at the first meeting of the American Society of Suicidology in 1968 (Selaković - Buršić i Bujišić, 1995: 47 - 50). Suicide is a huge preoccupation for sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, victims, philosophers, theologians, etc., where each of their perspectives has been given a certain scientific dimension

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